As a 16-year-old, I’ve grown numb to acts of extremism in my country, and I’m hardly the only teenager to feel this way.

As we mark the 48th anniversary of Roe v. Wade this month, it’s crucial to recognize the landmark Supreme Court case was about more than abortion and bodily autonomy — it was also broadly about privacy and pregnancy.

In 2013, Sawyer moved back to Memphis and threw herself into local activist organizations, including Black Votes Matter.

Any plan to rein in the pandemic and its most jarring consequences requires action to support victims and survivors.

The new administration’s actions will be crucial to reaffirming the faith of sexual violence survivors after the damage of the Trump presidency.

Ahead of Election Day, women across America turned their anxieties about the nation’s socioeconomic and racial turmoil and fears about the pandemic and the future into action by volunteering.

Frances Yasmeen Motiwalla’s path to running for Congress as a Democratic candidate was not a linear one.

Just because a person in power is a woman does not mean the way they use their power will actually help other women.

When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on September 18, so many women didn’t just mourn the loss of an amazing person, but also the loss of a historic fighter for gender equity.

Due in no small part to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a significant shortage of poll workers across the country. Amber Berger, who lives in Menominee County in Michigan, tried her best to help.

We must acknowledge that sexism in U.S. politics poses a pernicious threat to restoring political and social justice.

2020 will mark the centennial of women getting the right to vote — and we have a lot to celebrate. But there is still room for improvement.

An anti-abortion bill introduced to Ohio’s General Assembly on November 14 is causing controversy for requiring doctors to exhaust every possible option to save an unborn fetus, including “re-implanting” an ectopic pregnancy — a procedure that is literally medically impossible.

Activist Renee Bracey Sherman started the hashtag #AskAboutAbortion after moderators continuously failed to raise the subject. She recently told the FBomb about what needs to change in the national dialogue about abortion and what debate-watchers should look for in the future.

Radhia Jerbi is a prominent Tunisian feminist and lawyer who has served as the president of the National Union of the Tunisian Woman (NUTW) since 2013. Jerbi is also a member of the Human Rights League, the Maghrebian Women’s Union for Peace and Development, and the women’s section of the Lawyers’ General Council. Jerbi recently talked to the FBomb about everything the NUTW has been doing to guarantee gender equality and a secure future for Tunisian girls and women.

The most critical voices among those pushing back against this recent onslaught of anti-choice legislation and rhetoric are those of people who have been pregnant or had abortions themselves.

As I watched the mainstream media cover this day this year, I noticed that hardly any mentioned the female leaders of a famous 1990 protest.

The results of South Africa’s 2019 general election on May 8 were promising for champions of gender equality in politics, but

On June 4, the House Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing on “Threats to Reproductive Rights in America.” 18-year-old Youth Testify leader HK Gray testified at the hearing about the barriers she faced when seeking an abortion in Texas as a minor, including needing a judicial bypass to obtain an abortion.

I’m hardly the only high school student stressed about navigating what could be crippling student loan debt. This debt has already reached $1.5 trillion and women, who make up the greatest population of student-debt owers, are particularly burdened by debt harsh effects on everyday life.

If women are going to seek abortion no matter the legal status of abortion in the country they live in, who will illegal abortion hurt the most? The answer can be found in examining how significant a role class plays in a woman’s decision to have an abortion.

In 2018, Fabiano Contarato became the first openly gay man to be elected to the Brazilian Senate. The 52-year-old senator, who represents the state of Espírito Santo, was elected in the midst of a shift in Brazil’s political climate toward extremist and fundamentalist views; the president elected in 2018, Jair Bolsonaro, has consistently made racist and homophobic remarks and has been called “Trump of the Tropics.”

In 2019, Uruguay will have presidential elections, and it’s more important than ever that organizations advocating for reproductive rights stick together and continue to keep fighting to educate their society and advocate for a continued cultural shift toward acceptance of women’s reproductive rights.

Even before the media gave these women’s political visions a chance, it has largely narrowed in on evaluating whether these women possess a single quality — one that they seem to care about only when it comes to female candidates: their likability.

Abrams’ reluctance to concede was not only about her determination to win, but also about preserving Georgia’s electoral integrity.